Toonami Returns to Adult Swim

Anime will return to Adult Swim on May 26th, when the Toonami programming block returns, the company announced. The block will run from midnight to 6 a.m. ET/PT Saturdays. The programming will be a mix of series previously seen on the Toonami block and new anime programming developed by Adult Swim.

Keanu Reeves Wants to Play Spike Spiegel in CBB live Action Movie

Keanu Reeves recently talked about the progress that producer Erwin Stoff, who has worked exclusively with Reeves for the past two decades, has made on a live action remake of Shinichiro Watanabe anime Cowboy Bebop in an interview with MTV. Reeves told MTV that he was eager to play the futuristic space cowboy Spike Spiegel.

"We've got the rights, we've got a writer, and he's putting together a scene outline," Reeves told MTV about the Cowboy Bebop project, which is set up at Fox. Reeves explained to MTV why he loved Cowboy Bebop"t's got a Western quality, a Western/film noir aspect to it. It's got so much style to it, and that's part of its appeal-that kind of Old West, bordertown, low-tech science fiction aspect."

According to Reeves the live action film will focus on the origins of the Bebop team of bounty hunters and will incorporate the conclusion to the 26-episode anime and at least some of the episodic adventures explored in the series.

First Bleach Film to Run in U.S. Theaters June 11-12

National CineMedia's NCM Fathom, a digital theater distributor, has revealed that the animated Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody will run in American theaters on June 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m. The movie is the first theatrical spinoff from the Bleach television series, which itself is an adaptation of Kubotite's Bleach manga. Subscribers of the email newsletter for Viz Media's Shonen Jump magazine can purchase advance tickets from May 2 to May 8, and the general public can purchase tickets starting on May 9. The screenings will include a behind-the-scenes feature and a interview with the director Noriyuki Abe, who is also directing the television series. Viz Media has used NCM Fathom's high-definition digital presentation system for last year's Naruto movie screenings and the upcoming live-action Death Note screenings.

Viz Media announced its license of this movie in March. Like the ongoing Bleach manga and anime series, the movie centers on the Soul Reapers (Shinigami or Gods of Death) who protect humans from the "Hollow" spirits that prey on them. However, like the first Naruto movie, Memories of Nobody is an original story not seen in the earlier Bleach television series or manga. It ran in Japan in December of 2006, and a second movie, Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion - Mō Hitotsu no Hyōrinmaru, has since opened in Japan last December. Memories of Nobody introduces the previously unseen "Blank" entities that also threaten mankind.




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